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Any Justification For Not Showing That 4 Of The Two Word Answers Were Two Words?

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Pipsqueak65 | 12:44 Mon 24th Dec 2018 | Crosswords
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To me that was just cheating!
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We were told there were 7 and as only 3 were obvious (marked as such in error I believe) we should have been aware of it!
that sounds highly improper to me, but setters seem to make up their own rules as they go along these days.
A bad fault in the Daily Mail crosswords, quite often they will show 11 letters when in fact it should be 3, 4, 4 etc.
My answer was general because no mention of a particular crossword was made - if the instructions made it clear then that's different.
?!?

Aren't all two word answers, two words ?
I get a 'kick' out of working out the errors in the D Mail crosswords!
I'm assuming it was the Guardian Prize crossword by Maskarade. I feel that there was a mistake in the proof-reading in that 3 answers were listed as two words when the pre-amble suggested that they should only have been listed by the total number of letters.

The fact that some were listed one way and some the other just confused matters.
It was confusing - but I suppose the setter just about covered himself as he did say 'thirty-three solutions in total consist of two parts' - 26 letter clues + 2 two-word clues, so 5 other clues must also be two-word clues. But it was hard enough without that!
And I suspect I wasn't alone in never having heard of a fair number of the alphebetical clues...
Alphabetical - oops

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